POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 54, 4 March 1871, Page 2

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

MAILS CLOSE. For New Plymouth and Auckland, for Honolulu, America, the West Indies, the United Kingdom, and the Continent of Europe, via San Francisco — per s.s. Phoebe, tiiis day, Saturday, 4th in st., at 5 p.m. Registered Letters and Money Order?, at 4 p.m. , For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wakefield, and Foxhill— Close at Chief Post Office daily at 2.30, p.m.; arrive at Chief Post Office daily, at 11 o'clock, a.m. For Tadmor and Wangapeka — Close every Tuesday and Friday, at 2.30 p.m., and arrive every Tuesday and Eriday, at 11 a.m. Note. — In consequence of the Australian Mails being now conveyed by British Packets between Brindisi and Alexandria, a reduction in Postage on Letters sent via Brindisi has been effected. The rates of Postage to be charged in New Zealand on Correspondence for the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, will therefore be as follows : — Letters.— Not exceeding £ ounce, 9d. ; exceeding $ ounce aud not exceeding 1 ounce. Is. 6d. ; and so on, 9d for every additional \ ounce or fraction of \ ounce. Newspapers under 4 ounces, each 4d.; for every additional 4 ounces, 4d. Book and Pattern Parcels. — Not exceeding 1 ounce, 2d. ; exceeding 1 ounce and not exceeding 2 ounces, 4d. ; exceeding 2 ounces and not exceeding 4 ounces, 7d. ; exceeding 4 ounces and not exceeding 8 ounces, Is. ?d.; and so on, Is 2d for every additional 8 ounces or fraction, ot 8 Ounces. SYDNEY J. DiCK, \ Chief Postmaster;